Born in New York City
Lives and Works in New York City
EDUCATION
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine
2013 MFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York City
2009 BFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Riding the Wind's Back, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Walk The Air, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Picture-Makers, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Somewhere In Between, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Daily Navigation, Thierry Goldberg MIAMI, Miami, FL
2017 Homegrown, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Meta- Modes, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
2015 Graphic Mythologies, Russ Berrie Pavilion, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (forthcoming)
2023 Seeing Stars: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
2022 The Vault Show, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona
2021 But No Elephants, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
2021 Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
2021 Who Says Who Shows What Counts, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2021 Lineages: Works from the Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2020 Black Voices/Black Microcosm, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Embody, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady NY
2019 Punch LA, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
Snow Day, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2018 To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
Punch, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
Summertime…, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Harlem Perspectives, Faction Art Projects, New York, NY
Aesthetics of Matter, Volta 2018, New York, NY
2017 Bronx Calling: Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Harlem Postcards Summer 2017, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Uptown, Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center of the Arts, New York, NY
2015 Intersecting Imaginaries, No Longer Empty Lab, New York, NY
2014 Distrust That Particular Flavor, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Three, Three-Person Show, RFA Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Spirit of Community, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY
2009 Pulse, Taller Boricua at Julio Burgos Cultural Center, New York, NY
2003 Aspects of Urban Life, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
ART FAIRS
2023 Expo Chicago 2023- Group Booth
2022 Art Basel- Group Booth
2022 Independent Art Fair - Solo Booth
2022 Expo Chicago 2022- Group Booth
2021 Art Basel- Galleries Sector- Group Booth
2021 Art Basel Ovr:Portals - Solo Booth
2019. The Armory Show-Solo Booth
2018 Untitled Miami Beach Group Booth
2018 Expo Chicago 2018 Group Booth
PRESS
2022
ANNABEL KEENAN, "AT INDEPENDENT ART FAIR, YOUNG ARTISTS EXPLORE HERITAGE, IDENTITY AND HEALING"
CULTURED MAGAZINE , MAY 7, 2022
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN, "THE BEST BOOTHS AT INDEPENDENT NEW YORK 2022, FROM PERSONAL ABSTRACTION TO A RESPONSE
TO THE GUSTON CONTROVERSY, ARTNEWS , MAY 6, 2022
2018- 2019
Jovanovic, Rozalia, “Artist David Shrobe Creates His Own World Through Found Objects”, Galerie Magazine, (May 24, 2019) Rose Sharp, Sarah,
“What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde” (November 9, 2018) Shrobe, David. “One Piece: Celestial Pose” BOMB (October 23, 2018) Collymore,
Nan. “Decoding Black Materiality.” C& (October 12, 2018) Roth, David M. “David Shrobe @ Jenkins Johnson.” Square Cylinder (October 10, 2018)
2017
Frank, Priscilla. “Fourth Generation Harlem Artist Challenges What It Means To Be An American.”HUFFPOST Arts & Culture (February 21, 2017)
Rodney, Seph. “Mocking Materialism with Collage.” Hyperallergic (February 14, 2017) Sargent, Antwaun. “An Artist Transforms Debris into Sculptures
of Home and History.” The Creators Project (February 1, 2017)
2016
Wright, Peter “Soulio”. “Up on Sugar Hill: Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling Looks to Neighborhood’s Black History.” HUFFPOST
Arts & Culture (February 29,2016)
2011
Mays, Jeff. “Harlem Artist Beautifies Construction Side With Mural.” DNAinfo
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2017 Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
2016 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida
2015-2016 Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling Artist-in-Residence, New York City
2014-2016 Artist Teaching Fellow at Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York City
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Madison, Maine
2013 Kossak Travel Grant For Painters, Paris, France
LECTURES
2023 Open Air Virtual Artist Talk: David Shrobe in Conversation with Dexter Wimberly, Harvey B.
Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
2023 Imagination, Materiality, and Narrative as Liberatory Modes of Intervention, Interseminars Public Artist Talk, Mellon Foundation -funded seminar, Humanities Research Institute, University
of Illinois Urbana- Champaign
2021, Painting and Drawing Lecture series, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Sanfrancisco, California
2017 Ivy League Around the Corner, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Lenfest Center for the
Arts, New York, NY
2015 Distrust That Particular Flavor, Artist Talk, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Kossak Travel Grant Presentation, Hunter College MFA Building, New York, NY
Three, Artist Talk, RFA Gallery, New York, NY
PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of
Oregon, Eugene, OR, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Union College,
Schenectady NY, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson,
AZ University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI